systematic study of business. In the introductory part of the work
definitions and analysis of business organization are given with
considerable attention to the legal aspects and forms of organization.
After this introduction Professor Sparling passes to a discussion of
such topics as, Business aspects of farming, Factory organization,
Factory cost-keeping, Commercial organization, Exchanges, Direct
selling, wholesaling and retailing, Advertising, Credits and
collections.”
* * * * *
“The only book on the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 105. Ap. ’07.
“So many things have received treatment, and the limits set by the
very nature of the series are so narrow, that it has been impossible
for Professor Sparling to make himself clear on a number of points.”
Charles Lee Raper.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 662. My. ’07. 370w.
“The work is clear and readable. While it is not likely to offer much
detailed information of value to any thoughtful business man about the
organization of his own business, it is likely to prove helpful and
suggestive to the student who wants a general view of the field and to
the beginner who is studying methods of systematizing his own
business.” Wm. Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 51: 57. Ja. ’07. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 100w.
=Spears, John Randolph.= Short history of the American navy. **50c.
Scribner.
7–12867.
Published under the auspices of the new navy league of the United
States, this book aims to be a campaign document for keeping alive
people’s pride in our navy and the part it is playing in the making of
America’s history.
* * * * *
“This book is not to be taken too seriously. It contributes little new
knowledge and fortunately not many errors worthy of being noted.”
Charles Oscar Paullin.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 185. O. ’07. 470w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 172. O. ’07. S.
“Interestingly and compactly written, it cannot, however, claim
consideration as a serious historical study.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 33. Jl. 11, ’07. 160w.
“This short history of the navy is something more—and less—than a
history. A tract—even a good tract—is still a tract and should be so
labeled.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 390w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 90w.
=Speed, Capt. Thomas.= Union cause in Kentucky, 1860–1865. **$2.50.
Putnam.
7–14671.
A study of this special phase of the civil war by an active
participant.
* * * * *
“The work has those faults to which the author objects so strongly in
the other state historians. The method employed is interesting, but
unfortunately not convincing. In spite of Captain Speed’s
controversial method, which causes him often to forget facts for
arguments and opinions, the work will be found useful, for it is the
best available source of information about the Union cause in
Kentucky.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 41. Jl. 16, ’07. 440w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 60w.
“The book does not tell a consecutive story, but is rather a not
altogether well-assorted collection of fragments relating to men and
events, sometimes only locally interesting.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 650w.
“It is a polemic, though not of a fierce nature. It will have
value ... simply because it will be essential to the future historian
of Kentucky and the other border states.” Wm. E. Dodd.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 265. Ap. 27, ’07. 1130w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 80w.
=Speer, Robert E.= Marks of a man: or, The essentials of Christian
character. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–16361.
The Merrick lectures for 1906–7. They are on the following subjects,
Truth: no lie in character ever justifiable; Purity: a plea for
ignorance; Service: the living use of life; Freedom: the necessity of
a margin; Progress and patience: the value of a sense of failure.
=Speicher, Jacob.= Conquest of the cross in China. **$1.50. Revell.
7–20641.
A first-hand view of the conditions to be met by missionaries in
southern China.
* * * * *
“Mr. Speicher’s lectures ... were well worth bringing out in permanent
form, because they give good pictures of present conditions at Kityang
and the South China field generally, and are full of sane advice on
what kind of missionary the country needs and what kind of training
the missionary needs.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
* =Spinners’ club.= Spinners’ book of fiction. **$2. Elder.
7–32566.
A book of stories by well known writers of western fiction. Its
mission is to secure additions to a fund started by the Spinner’s club
to aid writers, artists or musicians whose fortunes are at low ebb.
Miss Ina D. Coolbrith whose literary treasures were swept away by the
earth-quake is the first beneficiary.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“A worthy memorial of Californian literary art.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 789. D. 7, ’07. 230w.
=Spinney, William Anthony.= Health through self-control in thinking,
breathing, eating. **$1.20. Lothrop.
7–2729.
An untechnical book whose purpose is to prove that health of body and
mind is a science and an art, and not in any respect a haphazard
matter. The author reveals the way to perfect health.
* * * * *
“There is much ... nonsense in the book.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 70w.
=Spitta, Edmund J.= Microscopy, the construction, theory and use of the
microscope. *$6. Dutton.
This “is a new and comprehensive volume on the technique of the
instrument, its construction and the theory of optics as applied to
the microscope. It differs essentially from ‘Carpenter on the
microscope,’ which has long been considered as standard, in that
Spitta has nothing to say regarding microscopic objects. He concerns
himself entirely with the instrument as a medium. The present volume
considers for the first time metallurgical microscopes and illustrates
the most recent types.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“We have noticed a few points which might receive attention in a
future edition, but our opinion of the work as a whole is high, and
every microscopist will be glad to add it to his library.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 448. O. 12. 970w.
“Advanced students in microscopy will find the present volume
extremely helpful.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1062. O. 31, ’07. 100w.
“In this aim he has, we think, been in a marked degree successful.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 274. S. 13, ’07. 400w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 476. N. 21, ’07. 160w.
“The merit of Dr. Spitta’s work lies in its practical hints, which are
the work of an experienced and skilled microscopist, and not in its
theory, which in fact hardly merits even the subordinate place which
he modestly assigns to it in his preface.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 581. N. 9, ’07. 790w.
=Squires, Grace.= Merle and May: a story of girlhood days. †$1.50.
Dutton.
6–39753.
The story of May and the winning over of her friend Merle, whose world
was all awry, to a wholesome girlish view of life will interest boys
as well as girls, for it is full of both fun and incident.
* * * * *
“It would interest boys, too, and it is better than the title would
suggest.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 525. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“It is full of wholesome lively, good fun, with just enough
seriousness to carry it home to susceptible young hearts. It would do
any girl good to read it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 480w.
=Stael-Holstein, Mme. de.= Madame de Staël and Benjamin Constant; ed. by
Mme. de Constant’s great-granddaughter. Baroness Elizabeth de Nolde; tr.
from the French by Charlotte Harwood. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–29169.
“These letters from Madame de Staël to Benjamin Constant, while not of
great political importance, show clearly the temper of the times, as
well as the emotions of the distinguished woman who wrote them. They
are not many, and do not by any means cover the whole period when
these two famous people were intimately connected. They show the
decadence of their devotion, and represent, by implication, ‘the
inconstant Constant’ in any but an admirable light.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“These letters of Mme. de Staël, with their frequent references to
current events, have some historical as well as biographical interest,
but are perhaps not quite so important or interesting as the Baroness
de Nolde would have us believe. The translation is a little too
obviously a translation.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 370w.
“As a whole the small volume is an interesting addition, though not of
great importance, to the voluminous literature of the time.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 380w.
“The book is to be recommended to all readers who are attracted by the
name of Madame de Staël. She, not Constant, benefits by this
publication of new letters.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 753. N. 16, ’07. 210w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Guilds of Florence. *$5. McClurg.
6–37191.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 105. Ap. 16, ’07.
“It is not provided with notes of any sort, and the literary style is
too exuberant to be that of an historian writing primarily for
students. It is not likely that very many readers will be able to
plough through all of the twenty chapters. But no one with any
interest in the general subject can afford to miss the last hundred
pages of the book.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 41. Ja. 16, ’07. 1450w.
“Easy as it would be to quarrel with the impression caused by this
presentation, and to detect inaccuracies, the heart of Mr. Staley’s
book is sound. It is not an important contribution to historical
knowledge but an attractive work for the general reader.”
+ + + =Ind.= 62: 155. Ja. 17, ’07. 780w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Lord Leighton of Stretton. (Makers of British art.)
*$1.25. Scribner.
“An attempt to give Lord Leighton of Stretton his true place in art
history, and at the same time designate a proper proportion to his
gentlemanly characteristics. By birth, fortune, and environment
Frederick Leighton was singularly placed for advancement in any
profession toward which he might have been attracted. The first 173
pages of the book form a narrative biography built around the work of
the artist from his early student sketches in Berlin and Florence to
the unfinished canvases left at his death.... The closing pages of the
book deal in a fragmentary, discursive, yet natural, manner with
Leighton’s versatility, nobility of purpose, courtesy, sincerity,
daily habits and patriotism.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It happens that Mr. Staley’s praise is not only tiresome, but
generally meaningless, and without any clear perception of the real
quality of the work praised.”
− =Nation.= 84: 67. Ja. 17, ’07. 260w.
“The [narrative biography] is admirably told with sufficient anecdote
to appeal to the general reader, while the chronology of his
advancement is preserved for reference through the titles of his
pictures inserted as marginal notes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 570w.
“He has written with such apparent indiscrimination.”
− =Outlook.= 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 340w.
=Stamey, De Kellar.= Junction of laughter and tears. $1.25. Badger, R:
G.
6–16206.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“If the moral is at times a little too obvious, and the language
rather that of the man in the street, the verses are at least the
author’s own, there is here no troublesome echo of greater poets.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 75. F. 9, ’07. 70w.
=Stanard, Mrs. Mary Newton.= Story of Bacon’s rebellion. $1. Neale.
7–20751.
Another bit of Jamestown history is told in this story of Nathaniel
Bacon who in 1676 led the poverty-stricken people of Virginia in
rebellion against Governor Berkeley and his grandees. The story is
well told and the motives, aims, and ideals of its hero have been
carefully sought out.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Stanard has been able to write a tolerably complete account of
the whole stirring episode. It cannot be said that every gap has been
filled out, neither is it altogether certain that the author’s
interpretations are always correct. The historical student may incline
to question whether the romantic in the episode has not sometimes
lifted the author’s feet off the solid rock of historical criticism.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 188. O. ’07. 280w.
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 154. Ag. 10. 140w.
“Mrs. Stanard has caught the spirit of the movement, and, fortified
with study of the original records and documents, has written a
thoroughly readable little account of the rebellion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 150w.
“Mrs. Stanard has a way of raising opposition in her readers; but that
there is much to be said for her hero we do not doubt; in any case,
there is much that is picturesque and interesting in her story.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 236. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.
=Standage, H. C.= Agglutinants of all kinds for all purposes. *$3.50.
Van Nostrand.
Here are scientifically discussed cements and agglutinants suited to a
great variety of trade purpose. The methods of preparing the compounds
are such as the author has found to give the best and surest results.
=Stanmore, Arthur H. G., 1st baron.= Sidney Herbert; Lord Herbert of
Lea. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.
7–28487.
Owing to the dearth of facts available for Lord Stanmore’s biography
he offers, as he says, a “bare recital of outer events” with “a sketch
of the times in which Lord Herbert lived.” “His career was hardly such
as to place him among the distinguished men of his generation, and
certainly was not such as to warrant his biographer’s assertion that
had he lived longer he would have been prime minister of England. His
chief claims to remembrance rest on his charming personality and on
his connection with the little group of Parliamentarians who banded
themselves together to keep alive Sir Robert Peel’s principles and
policies.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Lord Stanmore has, on the whole, done his work well, but some readers
will object to the occasional intrusion of his own personality and
opinions.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 726. D. 8. 3450w.
“It is good that the world should know what war means for the men who
are of the administrations responsible for a war; and except for the
Aberdeen memoirs, there are among English political biographies no
books which are more valuable from this point of view than the
biography of Sidney Herbert.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 822. O. 3, ’07. 790w.
“In many respects Sidney Herbert is singularly fortunate in his
biographer. He is only unfortunate in having had to wait so long. His
treatment of the Crimean war and its causes is such as might not
unfairly be called in these days a little old-fashioned.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 413. D. 14, ’06. 2700w.
“The net impression would have been better made in one-third the
space.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 204. F. 28, ’07. 410w.
“It is as a history of the Peelites that biography is chiefly
interesting, and especially for the fresh light it throws, not on
Herbert, but on Gladstone, the most distinguished and the most able of
the Peelites. For the rest, we must admit, that we have found the work
formidable and rather dreary reading.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 332. F. 9, ’07. 260w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 90w.
“Very interesting memoir.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 18. Ja. 5, ’07. 2150w.
=Spec.= 97: 1043. D. 22, ’06. 2060w.
=Stanton, Coralie.= Adventuress. Frontispiece by Harrison Fisher. $1.50.
McBride, T. J.
7–11588.
The story of Miriam Lemaire, a money lender, a society vampire, a
compelling criminal. The adventures of this woman, “who became a power
for good and evil, playing with men and even nations, as a cat plays
with mice” are recounted by the person, among all who appear on the
horizon of the tale, who suffered no ill at the hands of the
adventuress.
=Starbuck, Robert Macy.= Modern plumbing illustrated; a comprehensive
and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of
plumbing construction; il. by fifty-five detailed plates made expressly
by the author for this work. $4. Henley.
7–2755.
A plumbers’ handbook including the most practical up-to-date handling
of the questions of drainage, sewerage, and water supply.
* * * * *
“Exception must be taken to some of the author’s remarks. These
exceptions, however, affect only a small part of the book, and
probably most of them will do little harm, considering the class of
readers concerned. The main purpose of the book seems to be admirably
fulfilled.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 420w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.
“It will be found of value not only to master plumbers, craftsmen and
apprentices, but to architects, builders and all others who have
occasion to require clearly stated and excellently illustrated
information on the installation of sanitary appliances.”
+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 225. My. ’07. 270w.
=Starke, Dr. J.= Alcohol: the sanction for its use scientifically
established and popularly expounded by a physiologist; tr. from the
German. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–12259.
A popular treatise on the relations of alcohol to living organisms,
especially to man. The subject is discussed from the medical and also
the physical standpoint. On the one hand the author concludes that
“There is nothing in medical experience which speaks against the
moderate use of good alcoholic drinks by the public, but much that
speaks in favor of it,” on the other, that the bodily cells of man are
not strangers to alcohol and to its elaboration, that it nourishes,
exerts a specific action on the nervous system, acts no less as a
nutrient and a specific than cereals and sugar, and that the
disposition to drink excessively has its origin in the peculiarities
and circumstances of the individual, and that alcohol does not of
itself possess the property of inducing excessive use.
* * * * *
“It bears the earmarks of prejudice and is written in popular style in
order to influence public opinion more effectively.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 168. Jl. ’07. 110w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 449. Ap. ’07. 3120w.
“This common-sense volume will be a useful antidote to much of the
unscientific and incendiary literature on the subject that is in
circulation.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 208. S. ’07. 70w.
=Ind.= 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 130w.
“The translation, from a German original, is for the most part smooth
and clear, but the ‘Checking sensations’ of the sixth chapter are
somewhat obscure.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 110w.
“While this volume will scarcely meet with unanimous approval, it
might still be recommended as an antidote to the attenuated nonsense
of the ‘scientific temperance’ of the school books.” Graham Lusk.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 25: 787. My. 17, ’07. 180w.
=Starr, Frederick.= Truth about the Congo: the Chicago tribune articles.
$1. Forbes.
7–20882.
An unbiased statement of the present social and political conditions
in the Congo Free State. The author, in the course of a year’s travel
of seven thousand miles, visited twenty-eight different tribes and
found conditions much better than he had expected. His account is well
illustrated by photographs of the natives.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 172. O. ’07. S.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 602. N. ’07. 160w.
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 840. S. ’07. 990w.
=Nation.= 85: 281. S. 26, ’07. 120w.
“His book is a sane, calm statement of what he saw and understood on
his Congo trip.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 282. My. 4, ’07. 200w.
“He gives the public a clearer statement of the actual state of things
under the government of the Independent Congo State than has been
afforded by any publication since the beginning of the controversy
over alleged atrocities there.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 511. Ag. 24, ’07. 1330w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w.
=Stauffer, David McNeely.= Modern tunnel practice. *$5. Eng. news.
6–7716.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Within the limitations imposed by the size of the book and with the
reservation noted above, the author has made a very creditable
compilation of the recent periodical literature on the subject, which
is presented in an acceptable manner and quite profusely illustrated.”
F. Lavis.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 526. N. 15, ’06. 1350w.
* =Stead, Richard.= Adventures on high mountains. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“Boys will find a wide range of adventure to choose from in this
volume, and should be able to form a comprehensive notion of the
dangers that beset pioneers and travellers in the robber region of the
Mexican mountains and the lofty peaks of Abyssinia.” (Spec.) “The
compilation, beginning with Napoleon’s feat in crossing the Great St.
Bernard, and, coming down to the eruption of Mont Pelée, includes many
notable feats of climbing, as those of Tyndall on the Weisshorn and
Mr. Whymper’s terrible experience on the Matterhorn, as well as
less-known adventures in every part of the world.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 100w.
“The illustrations alone are sufficiently attractive to induce one to
run through the 328 pages.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.
“The book seems lacking in spirit, and yet Mr. Stead made the great
rivers most interesting to us; it is too obviously a compilation.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 640. N. 2, ’07. 190w.
=Stead, Richard.= Adventures on the great rivers, romantic incidents and
perils of travel, sport and exploration throughout the world. *$1.50.
Lippincott.
6–45336.
An interesting collection of adventures “in which figure a long line
of heroes from the Abbé Huc down to the miners who rushed to
Klondyke.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1906, 2: 51. O. 27. 130w.
“A chronicle irresistible to any boy with a soul for wild adventure
and wilder beasts.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“The author handles his material well. But his book would have been
better had he been more fully acquainted with the literature of the
topics he treats.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 160w.
“Boy readers will find a kaleidoscope of brilliant and picturesque
scenes from all lands collected for their benefit by Mr. Stead. And
from all of them they will learn some healthy lessons which, we think,
the author has striven to inculcate,—the value of coolness and
steadiness, tact and patience, and that, as books should educate as
well as recreate, is one of the good points of these twenty-nine
stories of adventure and exploration.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 210w.
* =Stead, William Thomas.= Peers or people? the House of lords weighed
in the balance and found wanting; an appeal to history. *$1. Wessels.
A three-part political monograph which urges that the hereditary
chamber of the British parliament be replaced by some sort of senate
which would be more responsive to popular will. The divisions of the
study are The lords versus the nation, What the House of lords has
done, and What must be done with the House of lords.
* * * * *
“There is far less of Mr. Stead than is usual in his political or
social monographs; and were all of Mr. Stead discarded, the
authorities he has drawn upon ... are brought together with much skill
and care; and these alone would greatly help to an understanding of
the problem.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 310. O. 3, ’07. 490w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 120w.
=Stearns, Frank Preston.= Life and genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne. **$2.
Lippincott.
6–37623.
A biography which aims to supply more critical comment than is found
in previous lives of Hawthorne. Eased somewhat on personal memories it
“contains much interesting matter, and shows marks of faithful and
loving labor; its citations and references and illustrations are
varied and sometimes illuminating.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“He does not seem to understand that unstinted praise of everything
that Hawthorne wrote is not criticism.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 603. My. 18. 370w.
“Its style is rambling and diffuse—a fault not offset by any keenness
of criticism in the chapters devoted to what he proclaims as the
distinctive feature of his work.”
− + =Dial.= 42: 45. Ja. 16, ’07. 360w.
“The author of this new ‘Life of Hawthorne’ comes to his task with
some advantages over the ordinary biographer and critic. To a keen
sympathy and with vivid admiration of the genius of our one great
romancer he adds some personal acquaintance with him and his
surroundings.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 446. F. 21, ’07. 390w.
“In spite of all that has been published in the note-books, in Horatio
Bridge’s memoirs, and in Julian Hawthorne’s biography, there are even
new facts to be found here, some of which are interesting and
valuable. But the best reason for reading the book lies in this—it
furnishes a perfect example or what a biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne
should not be.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 620w.
* =Stearns, Frank Preston.= Life and public services of George Luther
Stearns. **$2. Lippincott.
7–38430.
A full biography of Major Stearns who was “the Sir Galahad of the
antislavery struggle.” It has been compiled partly from documentary
evidence and partly from family traditions. It furnishes interesting
sidelights on the civil war and its issues.
=Steel, Flora Annie.= Sovereign remedy. †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–26482.
“Two young men, a clerk from a Midland city and an uncomfortable
millionaire ... meet a beautiful girl, who has been brought up by a
philosophic grandfather in seclusion.... Both fall in love with her,
and she falls in love with the millionaire, Lord Blackborough, but,
being afraid of love, she marries the other, for whom she has only a
humdrum liking. Lord Blackborough continues to make ducks and drakes
of his fortune, while the other, Cruttenden, becomes the hard
commercial money-spinner. Aura, his wife, is at first fascinated by
domesticity, but she is soon repelled by the heartlessness of
prosperity, and begins to turn to her first love. She is killed
accidentally in his company, and he, too, mad with grief, dies in the
ward of a workhouse infirmary with the words of Eastern mysticism on
his lips.”—Spec.
* * * * *
+ − =Acad.= 71: 182. Ag. 25, ’06. 680w.
“Is essentially a good story, witty and poignant, and full of
interesting modern people; but it is almost intolerably sad.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 181. Ag. 18. 550w.
“The chief fault to be found with ... ‘The sovereign remedy,’ is that,
out of a rather confusing number of characters, it seems impossible to
determine which one she herself was personally interested in, and
which she meant the reader to regard as the leading parts. This
confusion mars what would otherwise have been a book of considerable
strength.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 88. Mr. ’07. 560w.
“Mrs. Steel is so wise a woman and so admirable a writer that her work
always gives pleasure of a refined sort, but the present story offers
only a pale reflection of the power displayed in her novels of Indian
life.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 225. Ap. 1, ’07. 260w.
“The book is a beautiful story, beautifully told. It emerges quite
evidently from a full mind, a wide experience and an appeased and
noble outlook upon life.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 442. F. 21, ’07. 320w.
“There is a certain literary distinction in Mrs. Steel’s new story
which lifts it well above the novels of the hour.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.
“The actual story told is so unimportant and uninteresting that a
novelist of her competence would hardly have written it without
ulterior motives; and one is driven, therefore to search for
symbolism, and to find it, though the relation between the symbol and
the thing symbolized is not invariably clear.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 271. Ag. 3, ’06. 500w.
“Lavishness, in fact, is the note of the whole story.”
− =Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 560w.
“A most unusual and interesting novel. Few are the occurrences to be
measured beside the sort of thing that really happens; few characters
are at all like any one meets in life. Much of the action, too, is
quite inexplicable. It is to the credit of Mrs. Steel’s art that as we
read we believe—the incredulities come with the backward look.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 78. F. 9, ’07. 670w.
“She comes to her task with a mind well furnished, with a habit of
skilled observation, and with the wide outlook of one who has in the
fullest way lived threescore years.” Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 184: 861. Ap. 19, ’07. 840w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 766. Je. ’07. 30w.
“It is hard to say whether the frank improbabilities of the
story—though they are heaped together in the opening pages till they
look like an intentional signal—and the high-pitched (not to say
melodramatic) key of much of the action, are intended to emphasise the
strain of mysticism and the occult which runs through the book and to
put the reader in tune with immaterial influences, or—a thing scarcely
to be thought of in Mrs. Steel’s hands—are merely structural mishaps.
Again, it is difficult to decide whether the frequent reflections on
modern developments of social order are the prepossessions of a
reformer forcing their way through the story at almost every turn, or
are the main moral of which the fiction is only the vehicle.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 175. Ag. 11, ’06. 740w.
“The truth is that Mrs. Steel has attempted to write a tale of Eastern
mysticism in an irrelevant setting. She has moments of great power and
beauty, but they serve only to accentuate the weakness of the main
theme. One exception, indeed should be made, for the picture of the
revival in the village is done with remarkable skill.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 205. Ag. 11, ’06. 890w.
=Steele, Francesca Maria (Fanny) (Darley Dale, pseud.).= Naomi’s
transgression. †$1.50. Warne.
A wealthy Australian Quaker at his death leaves his large fortune to
his daughter Naomi on condition that she marries her London cousin
Robin. If he refuses she is to have the fortune; if she refuses, it
goes to him. Naomi’s friend, Kitty Marvin, goes to London in her place
crudely impersonates the Quakeress and antagonizes Robin who becomes
engaged to another girl. When the deception is discovered the
complication is all that any weaver of plots could wish, and its
untangling is deftly accomplished.
=Stein, Evaleen.= Gabriel and the hour book. $1. Page.
6–25686.
“The story of a little Norman boy in the time of Louis XII., who went
daily to St. Martin’s abbey to help the monks who made the wonderful
illuminated books.... He worked with one of the monks who was the most
skilful of them all on an hour book which the king wanted as a gift to
his bride.... Finally a little prayer to the king which he put into
the book brought great good fortune.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 83. Mr. ’07. ✠
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 150w.
=Steiner, Bernard Christian.= Maryland during the English civil wars.
pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
7–11189.
=pt. 2.= Beginning with the events of the year 1643 the second part of
this monograph takes up Maryland’s narrative and examines it in detail
down to the famous Act concerning religion enacted by the Assembly of
1649.
=Steiner, Edward A.= On the trail of the immigrant. **$1.50. Revell.
6–39003.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Most interesting as to the telling, accurate as to facts, based upon
personal experience and investigation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 74. Mr. ’07. S.
“This volume is easily one of the most interesting, accurate and
important discussions of the immigrant yet produced in this country.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 224. Ja. ’07. 360w.
Reviewed by Arthur B. Reeve.
=Charities.= 17: 507. D. 15, ’06. 690w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 211. Ja. 24, ’07. 500w.
“Professor Steiner’s social studies of Jew and Slav are especially
valuable; and his reasoning throughout is clear and incisive. The
volume is written in popular style, but by no means lacks scientific
interest.”
+ + =Yale R.= 15: 467. F. ’07. 120w.
* =Stejneger, Leonhard Hess.= Herpetology of Japan and adjacent
territory. $1. Supt. of doc.
7–35282.
With a number of changes in established nomenclature Dr. Stejneger has
treated the reptiles of Japan, the Liu Kiu, neighboring islands, and a
large portion of the mainland devoting particular attention to
geographical distribution.
* * * * *
“A valuable systematic monograph.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 92. N. 28, ’07. 40w.
“His manner of simplifying descriptions, interspersing paragraphs
helpful to the novice, besides giving some attention to habits,
produces a work of far broader use and interest than a strictly
technical compilation.” Raymond L. Ditmars.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 507. O. 18, ’07. 2160w.
=Stelzle, Rev. Charles.= Messages to working men. **50c. Revell.
6–20202.
A plea for the church as a means of economic and social betterment.
The “messages” aim to bring the workingmen and the church into closer
relation by solving through brotherly love the economic and social
problems which are in reality moral and religious questions.
* * * * *
“Mr. Stelzle delivers this message in a very pleasing manner. His
language is simple; his style spirited. He deals with familiar things
in a familiar way. The fatal error of the book is just in this air of
reality and sanity. It imparts this air to a statement and solution of
the problem altogether too simple.” R. F. Hoxie.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 181. Mr. ’07. 310w.
“Their outstanding characteristics are sound sense, a broad humanity,
and insistence on personal loyalty to Christ.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 911. Ag. 18, ’06. 130w.
=Stephen, Sir Leslie.= Essays of Sir Leslie Stephen, literary and
critical. Authorized American ed. 10v. ea. *$1.50. Putnam.
=v. 6.= English literature and society in the eighteenth century.
The sixth volume in this series includes the Ford lectures for 1903,
which deal more with the literature of the period than with society.
“Society is only dealt with in just so far as the poetic and prose
writers expressed it, or in so far as it affected them.” (N. Y.
Times).
* * * * *
“The lectures ... do not exhibit Stephen at his best. The subject was
one with which he was thoroughly familiar; it afforded him opportunity
for many passages of shrewd comment and keen analysis. And yet the
whole is not so thoroughly knit together and so happily phrased as the
work of his prime.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap 25, ’07. 170w.
“Sir Leslie Stephen ... has written them in a much more entertaining
style than that in which the average professor delivers the average
lecture.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07. 480w.
* =Stephen, Sir Leslie.= Science of ethics; 2d ed. *$2.50. Putnam.
W 7–196.
Starting from the utilitarian theory, the author’s aim is to “lay down
an ethical doctrine in harmony with the doctrine of evolution.”
* * * * *
=Nation.= 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 120w.
“Sir Leslie Stephen, not disdaining any homely illustration that
occurs to him, makes the study of ethics as delightful a pursuit as
Bagehot made economics or as Prof. James makes psychology.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 748. N. 23, ’07. 530w.
=Stephens, Robert Neilson, and Westley, G: Hembert.= Clementina’s
highwayman: a romance. $1.50. Page.
7–27613.
The highwayman is a young lord whose fortune has been squandered in
his absence by a rascally steward. He takes a dare to be a highwayman
for a night for the spice of adventure there is in it, and gets
himself into no end of trouble. The situations growing out of the
wager make a lively little comedy of errors leading up to a romance
whose course is interrupted by an unconscionable eighteenth century
beau.
* * * * *
“Clementina is fascinating, her highwayman acts up to his part in fine
style, and, incidentally, the reader gains many a realistic glimpse of
the strenuous thing life was for even a plain citizen in the days of
George II.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 680. O. 26, ’07. 270w.
=Sterling, Sara Hawks.= Queens’ company: a story for girls. †$1.25.
Lippincott.
7–31224.
The queens are the much loved teachers in a girls’ boarding school and
the company consists of a group of fun loving girls of boarding school
age. The story centers about the production of an amateur “As you like
it” and there is much wholesome human nature in the tale.
* =Sterns, Justin.= Song of the boy. 15c. Ariel press, Westwood, Mass.
The first note struck in the poem is that of “vivid glorification of
the joys of healthy youth—wrestling, skating, diving, rowing,
climbing, running, jumping, the subtler joys of the senses, the
pleasures of the fresh fancy and imagination, of young sympathy and
friendship.... Then other voices are heard. Death, the World, the
Flesh, the Devil, address themselves to the boy, suggesting the
pleasantness of the Primrose path and the wisdom of plucking roses
while one may. Finally Love speaks in the crucial strophe of the
poem.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Shows a wholesome, fine poetic imagination.”
+ =Arena.= 38: 215. Ag. ’07. 590w.
“The piece has its faults; it would have gained by some revision and
excision by an occasional refining of phrase, but as a whole it is a
telling expression of the perennially pagan spirit of youth and of an
admirable promise.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 420w.
=Stevens, George Barker.= Christian doctrine of salvation. **$2.50.
Scribner.
5–32666.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We doubt whether, with all his learning and his keenness to press
home every point of vantage, he can be awarded many of the spoils of
victory. But in saying this we do not wish to deny the interest and
importance of his work from a historical point of view. It is a
learned study in some of the by-paths of religious thought and
belief.” W. H. Drummond.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 5: 691. Ap. ’07. 2550w.
=Stevens, Horace J.= Copper handbook, v. 6. $5. Stevens, H. J.
“This volume covers the entire subject of copper, its history,
biography, metallurgy, finances, and statistics.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“In general, the descriptions are well written, and many of them are
not only readable but in some parts highly interesting.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 640. D. 13, ’06. 190w.
“The frankness, honesty and sincerity of the comments on
copper-producing mines is perhaps the most valuable characteristic of
the book, although the typographical arrangement is unusually helpful
in making the contents accessible.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 511. Ap. ’07. 90w.
=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= Affairs of state. †$1.50. Holt.
6–34368.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It makes a pleasant comedy.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 200w.
“It is easy reading, and the events are such as to hold the
attention.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 90w.
“Novels of diplomacy must be very good to be tolerable, and Mr.
Stevenson has not the equipment necessary to make his treatment of
continental politics convincing.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 306. S. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= That affair at Elizabeth. †$1.50. Holt.
7–34779.
A strange confusion in the relationship of a beautiful girl, who
disappears mysteriously on her wedding day, and the man whom she was
to have married is made clear in the course of this story by the young
lawyer, Lester, and Godfrey, the reporter. Both hero and heroine are
mistaken as to their real parents so that when the puzzle is but half
solved it leaves them brother and sister. This makes a doubly
thrilling tale which holds the reader’s interest through murder and
mystery to the last page.
=Stevenson, Richard Taylor.= John Calvin; the statesman. *$1. West.
Meth. bk.
7–14592.
A volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series, which treats of Calvin
the man and the statesman, rather than of Calvin, the theologian.
=Stevenson, Robert Louis.= Sea fogs: with an introduction by Thomas R.
Bacon. **$1.50. Elder.
7–33227.
The initial volume in a series to be known as “Western classics.” Here
Stevenson describes the rolling in of the sea fogs over the valley
until his mountainside became a lone sea-beach. It is a beautiful
picture all done in silver-gray.
=Stewart, Charles D.= Partners of providence. †$1.50. Century.
7–12003.
In the vernacular of the rover, Sam Daly recounts his “rolling-stone,
happy-go-lucky” experiences mainly on “Mississippi river steamboats
and the rafts and landings alongside from Cairo to New Orleans.” Sam’s
partners are his dog Rags and Clancy, the expert “tosser” of hot
rivets into a bridge-builder’s bucket. They run the round of chance,
sometimes are masters of fate, often a prey to it, but are ever
cheerful philosophers.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07. ✠
“Mr. Stewart forces his tale, and lets it meander over a course as
long as his river, and as crooked.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 514. O. 26. 120w.
“Perhaps the worst fault of the book is that, paradoxically enough,
the spirit of pure fun holds sway too completely.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 299. My. ’07. 990w.
“Has given a new boy to literature for Sam Daly is not a Tom Sawyer by
any means; he has a personality all his own, and a most attractive
one.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 221. Jl. 25, ’07. 330w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w.
“There is not a false note, a sentence out of key, or—rare finality in
books of popular humor—one second of doubtful taste.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, 07. 450w.
“The book is refreshing and delightful beyond adequate expression in
critical prose.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 193. Mr. 30, ’07. 790w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
“It is a book to read, not hurriedly, but a bit at a time.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 350w.
=Stickney, Albert.= Organized democracy. **$1. Houghton.
6–37188.
“The author has endeavored to present an impartial and dispassionate
statement of political affairs as they exist to-day, to call attention
to certain definite imperfections in the machinery of election, and to
suggest remedies looking to vital reforms, which would bring the
administration of government in line with the ideals of the founders
of the democratic state.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“His book is suggestive and valuable in parts. In other parts it is
full of repetition and lacking in clearness.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 648. My. ’07. 630w.
“The suggestions of reform are for the most part fragmentary and not
sufficiently worked out to give the reader any adequate conception of
their value or lack of it.”
− =Ind.= 63: 161. Jl. 18, ’07. 360w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 490w.
“We fear that Mr. Stickney is too optimistic, and too little
appreciative of the difficulty in this country of achieving reforms by
wholesale; but his shrewd observations and obvious seriousness make
his book not uninteresting.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 220w.
=Still, Alfred.= Polyphase currents. $2.50. Macmillan.
W 7–56.
“A large part of the book deals with the functions and properties of
the power transmission line.... Concluding third of the volume is
devoted to the induction and to the synchronous motor, including the
rotary converter.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Mr. Still’s book contains little that is novel in material or
treatment. Its merit lies in a simple direct style and in the
systematic arrangement of topics. A reference text which will be very
useful to the operators of electrical machinery who desire to know
something of the theory of their machines but who are not prepared or
inclined to pursue the subject exhaustively.” Henry H. Norris.
− + =Engin. N.= 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 640w.
“This is a sound and practical guide to the electrical engineer in a
field.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 120w.
=Stockton, Francis Richard.= Queen’s museum and other fanciful tales.
$2.50. Scribner.
6–39760.
The “other fanciful tales” which follow “The queen’s museum” in this
volume are The Christmas truants, The griffin and the minor canon, Old
Pipes and the dryad, The bee-man of Orn, The clocks of Rondaine,
Christmas before last, Prince Hassack’s march, The philopena, and The
accomodating circumstance.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 23. Ja. ’07.
“So far excels any other that has come to our notice this year that it
is almost in a class by itself.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 527. Ja. ’07. 100w.
=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 60w.
=Stockwell, Chester Twitchell.= Evolution of immortality: suggestions on
an individual immortality based upon our organic and life history. 4th
ed., rev. and enl. *$1. West, J. H.
6–37617.
That there is no retrograde movement in nature, that individual
self-consciousness is eternal, that there is no sense developed
without some corresponding objective reality that calls it into
action, that all things are spiritual, are among the propositions
either suggested or demonstrated.
* * * * *
“It is a remarkable little book and worthy of the four editions into
which it has passed.” Robert E. Pisbee.
+ =Arena.= 37: 217. F. ’07. 390w.
“He has certainly succeeded in putting before the reader many
interesting thoughts.” W. A. Hammond.
+ =Philos. R.= 16: 211. Mr. ’07. 330w.
=Stoddart, Anna M.= Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). *$5. Dutton.
7–25137.
A biography of an indefatigable traveler, a writer, and
philanthropist.
* * * * *
“As biographer, the one mistake which, in our opinion Miss Stoddart is
inclined to make is that she underlines the religious side of her
subject’s character. But these passages are exceptional, and the
momentary quivering of the balance serves to draw attention to its
usual fine steadiness.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 629. D. 22, ’06. 750w.
“Miss Stoddart had a good subject for a biography in Isabella Bird,
and she has reflected her life both faithfully and ably. The result is
that she has written an excellent book.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 283. Mr. 9. 1100w.
“The most admirable feature of this biography is that it gives the
more personal side of Mrs. Bishop’s life during the forty-six years of
her travels.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 153. Jl. 18, ’07. 580w.
“If there is a fault it is a certain lack of perspective into which
the writer has been betrayed by devoted and admiring affection.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 960w.
“She writes as a sentimentalist rather than a psychologist. The value
of her work lies chiefly in the account it gives of the scope and
results of Mrs. Bishop’s journeys.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 547. Je. 13, ’07. 1000w.
“The reader feels too strongly the point of view of the biographer;
suspects that some interesting material is thrown into uninteresting
form. The book as it stands is tedious reading.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 690w.
“A beautiful tribute to Mrs. Bishop’s character and a fine estimate of
her accomplishments.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 902. Ap. 20, ’07. 500w.
“Miss Stoddart has been an almost too industrious biographer, yet this
was rara ‘avis’ in terris. We could have wished some cheap remarks
about ecclesiastical Christianity away, and one or two bits of
ignorance.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 303. S. 7, ’07. 740w.
“Her book cannot fail to be read with the interest and admiration
which it deserves.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 114. Ja. 26, ’07. 1570w.
=Stoddart, Jane T.= Life of the Empress Eugenie. 3d ed. *$3. Dutton.
7–26628.
After careful research among state documents, reviews, newspapers, and
various authoritative works the author has presented some fresh
material which reveals Empress Eugénie in relation to court life
rather than in relation to “state policies.” “The reader has served up
to him small, detached chunks of history, isolated incidents,
descriptions of festivities, scenes at court, constant praise of
Eugénie’s beauty and charm, all mingled together without any attempt
to trace either a logical sequence of events, development of
character, or growth of purpose.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“This is the first volume in which a serious attempt has been made to
give a complete and authentic account of the remarkable woman.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 653. D. 29, ’06. 1660w.
“On the whole, we repeat, the book is excellent, and it contains very
few downright blunders; though naturally the cause of the Empress is
espoused.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 477. O. 20. 480w.
“Queen Victoria’s affection for Eugenie seems to have gone a long way
in determining the biographer’s point of view. It is a point of view,
however, that rather fails to emphasize than denies faults in its
subject.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 634. S. 12, ’07. 230w.
“The author of the present volume has tried eagerly to do full justice
to her subject. But partly by reason of that very eagerness and partly
by reason of what is apparently native incapacity, her book is very
unsatisfactory.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 125. Mr. 2, ’07. 910w.
=Outlook.= 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 270w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 170w.
“It no doubt contains a good deal of information, more or less
accurate, of the eventful career of the Empress which may serve to
gratify the curiosity of those who would draw aside the veil,
irrespective of the feelings of the individual concerned.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8. ’06. 200w.
=Stoker, Bram (Abraham).= Personal reminiscences of Henry Irving.
**$7.50. Macmillan.
6–36011.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His life of Sir Henry has, however, a personal touch that no other
hand could give it and subsequent biographers will be obliged to
consult its pages freely.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 508. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Stone, Christopher.= Sea songs and ballads; selected by Christopher
Stone; with introd. by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge. *90c. Oxford.
7–12668.
“Sir Cyprian Bridge tells us of the ‘Fore-bitters’ or sailors’
ditties, sung from the stage of the forebitts in the old sailing days,
ditties of endless length, unaccompanied by any instrument, but not
destitute of melody, ditties suited to ‘a voice like a gale of wind,’
and invariably provided with a ship’s company chorus. These and the
chanties (pronounced shanties) of the merchant service are perhaps the
only genuine songs of the sea. The chanties are of three kinds, each
adapted to a special part of the vessels’ work—‘the capstan’ chanty,
the ‘halliard’ chanty, and ‘the sheet, tack, and bowline’ chanty.”
(Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“The little volume should have a very large circulation and nowhere
will be more heartily welcomed than on the mess decks of our warships.
We have nothing but praise for the scholarly notes and the attractive
form of the volume.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 633. D. 22, ’06. 670w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 130. My. ’07. S.
“All that is given here deserves preservation.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 330w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 60w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 530w.
“A corpus of salty folks-poesie that is as instructive as
entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 100. F. 16, ’07. 480w. (Reprinted from Lond.
Times.)
=Sat. R.= 102: 684. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
=Spec.= 97: 940. D. 8, ’06. 140w.
=Stone, Melville E., jr.=, comp. Book of American prose humor. lea.
$1.25. Duffield.
7–25552.
A collection of humorous and witty tales, sketches and anecdotes
written by the best known American writers.
Stories of strange sights retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical
stories.) *65c. Century.
7–29585.
Curious phenomena and freaks of nature which make a wonderland of land
and sea are described for young readers in these chapters. In the
groups are the mirage, ocean storms, waterspouts at sea, volcanoes and
earthquakes, cyclones, the southern cross, etc.
* * * * *
“A most attractive series of tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
Stories of the Great Lakes, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical
stories.) *$65c. Century.
7–29582.
Here is outlined for young readers the fascinating story of the Great
lakes from the standpoint of their grandeur, significance in time of
war, and their vast commercial importance.
=Storm, Theodor W.= Immensee; translated from the German by George P.
Upton. il. **$1.75. McClurg.
7–33212.
Mr. Upton’s aim has been, not so much to render a literal translation
of this excellent example of German lyric sentiment, as to give
English readers as perfect an English version as possible. The story
is prettily illustrated, generous use being made of the water-lily
which is the symbol of the vision of lost youth—the motif of
“Immensee.”
* * * * *
“Mr. George P. Upton, the translator, furnishes, besides a singularly
graceful rendering of the text, an interesting appreciation of Storm
and his work.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 90w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 80w.
=Strachan, James.= Hebrew ideals; from the story of the patriarchs; part
2d, Genesis, chapters 25–50. (Bible class hand books ser.) *60c.
Scribner.
“A series of brief exhortations based on some element of character in
the lives of the patriarchs or a short sermon with a keen edge.”—Bib.
World.
* * * * *
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 184. Ja. ’07. 80w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Bib. World.= 27: 399. My. ’06. 20w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“One lays down the book with much the same feeling as one has after
studying Holman Hunt’s ‘Light of the world’—beautiful, but a bit too
modern, and therefore unreal. The book from a literary point of view
is worth reading.” Clifton D. Gray.
+ − =Bib. World.= 29: 237. Mr. ’07. 560w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Strang, Herbert.= Fighting on the Congo: the story of an American boy
among the rubber slaves, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–41714.
A story written for the purpose of revealing the horror of the rubber
traffic on the Congo, to show what has been the effect of the white
man’s rule. Young Jack Challoner in company with his uncle makes a
nobler fight than ever mediaeval crusaders undertook. The uncle dies
with this admonition “help the negroes of the Congo fight the corrupt
government that enriches itself on their blood; go to the
fountain-head and expose the hypocrisy of King Leopold.” Jack carries
on his battle with Samba at his side, Samba, whose woeful plight had
first brought home to his heart the terrible realities of the rubber
slavery. The tale abounds in thrilling adventure, bloodshed and
cruelty.
* * * * *
“The special literature of the subject has been mastered, and
indebtedness is acknowledged to Mr. and Mrs. Harris, the energetic
missionaries, for assistance to which is doubtless owing the
exceptional accuracy and minuteness of the descriptions of the Central
African scenery and animals. The young readers for whom the volume is
primarily intended are not likely to find fault with it on account of
the triteness of its characterisation.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 220w.
“Whether a book for young people should be built upon a grave
political problem, the data for which are taken from one side only, is
a matter for serious doubt. The story is full of pathos and is
admirably told, with the same informing touches that we find in all
Mr. Strang’s books.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 5. D. 8, ’06. 230w.
=Strang, Herbert.= In Clive’s command: a story of the fight for India.
†$1.50. Bobbs.
6–32681.
Many regard Herbert Strang as the one upon whom the mantle of Henty
fell. This is “an absorbing story which takes the reader back to the
capture of Gheria and the battle of Plassey, and, as a matter of
course, chronicles the brave deeds of an English lad.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Better than Henty’s ‘With Clive in India’ both as to style and to
historical setting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 143. My. ’07.
“Mr. Strang has imagination of a high order, which was singularly
absent in Henty’s stories. He has been true to the historic demands
while writing a story that palpitates with action and whose characters
are real, live personalities, and not manikins, such as were Henty’s.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 688. D. ’06. 230w.
“The narrative not only thrills, but also weaves skilfully out of fact
and fiction a clear impression of our fierce struggle for India.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 21. 70w.
“A personal story of adventure that must be most fascinating to any
normal, healthy boy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 120w.
“It is full of thrilling adventure, and mingles the historical and
romantic in acceptable proportion.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 50w.
“Mr. Herbert Strang improves with every season, which is saying much
when we remember how good his previous work has been.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 5. D. S, ’06. 200w.
“The persons in the drama of his Indian life are vigorously drawn.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 759. N. 17, ’06. 400w.
* =Strang, Herbert.= On the trail of the Arabs; a story of heroic deeds
in Africa, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–29572.
Mr. Strang returns to a period lying back of the present days of
rubber slavery which latter were treated in his “Fighting on the
Congo.” The present story deals with an earlier time and a different
region of the Great forest. “It is a picture of the last years of the
Arab domination, when the remnants of Tippu Tib’s hordes, in remote
fastnesses, pursued their evil traffic in humanity. The two pictures
are companions and contrasts; but they have this in common: they
attempt to show the native races at their best, as they may be and are
when oppression is replaced by sympathy.”
* =Strang, Herbert.= Rob the ranger: a story of the fight for Canada,
il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–31414.
A story of Canada in the provincial days before the capture of Quebec.
It gives the exciting adventures of a boy in search of his father and
brother separated from him during a French-Indian raid. It is the
wilderness of the Hurons and Mohawks that furnishes the background of
the story.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1907, 2:652. N. 23. 110w.
=Strang, William.= Etchings; with critical introductions by Frank
Newbolt. *$2.50, Scribner.
It is the “characteristic work” of many moods that Mr. Newbolt has
brought together in this collection. “Mr. Newbolt’s introduction does
full justice to the fertility of Strang’s invention, to the great
range of his experience in technique, to his courage in ever tackling
fresh problems and difficulties instead of settling down steadily, as
artists are prone to do, to the repetition of some stock subject which
makes a sure appeal to the public taste and binds the artist in the
slavery of habit.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Newbolt’s ... essay is written in an easy, unaffected style,
without partiality or any undue parade of the technical knowledge
which adds a special value to an etcher’s criticism of etchings.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 448. Ap. 13. 300w.
“The only fault that can be found with them is the colour of the paper
on which they are printed. It is too deep in tone, an unwise
concession to a popular prejudice against white paper for purposes of
this kind.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6; 102. Mr. 29, ’07. 370w.
=Nation.= 84: 346. Ap. 11, ’07. 150w.
“It is a satisfaction to all art-lovers that a collection of the
Strang etchings has now been published, with an excellent prefatory
account of them and their creator by Mr. Frank Newbolt.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 130w.
=Strange, Edward Fairbrother.= Hokusai; the old man mad with painting.
(Langham ser., an illustrated collection of art monographs, v. 17.),
*$1. Scribner.
6–46317.
Not only gives “a resumé of what is known of the life of the great
Japanese artist and a discriminating guide to those qualities which
make the greatness of his art, but tends to give the reader a sounder
understanding of what art is than many a volume ten times its size and
ten times more pretentious.”
* * * * *
“He is one of the few who, having an authoritative knowledge of his
subject, has also the gift of presenting that knowledge in an
entertaining and stimulating fashion.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 14. Ja. 5, ’07. 350w.
“Gives a clear enough picture of the place of that artist in the art
of Japan, but it is difficult to accept altogether the judgment which
ranks him with ‘the masters of the world’s art.’”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 186. F. 21. ’07. 210w.
“Excellent monograph.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 340w.
Strange stories of colonial days. †60c. Harper.
7–17360.
Among these 16 pictures of colonial life and adventure are stories of
early Indiana history, of King Philip’s wars, Bacon’s rebellion, the
treasure hunt of William Phipps in the late 17th century, stories of
pirates and buccaneers, of scouts and drummer boys. The authors
include Francis Drake, Hezekiah Butterworth, Robert Fuller, Rowan
Stevens and others.
* * * * *
“The stories will add light and color and interest to the school
history they too often—and quite reasonably—find dull.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07 230w.
Strange stories of 1812. †60c. Harper.
7–18099.
Eleven stories by five different authors of the warfare which our
soldiers waged along the Canadian frontier against the British and
their Indian allies, of the massacre of Fort Dearborn, the exploit of
a young hero of the New York frontier, and also stories of our navy
and our privateers, of the chase of the Hornet and the victories of
the Constitution.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 210. N. ’07.
Strange stories of the civil war. †60c. Harper.
7–18097.
The history of the civil war is supplemented in this volume by stories
which, though cast in the form of fiction, present the atmosphere of
the times and give a vivid picture of some of the thrilling episodes
which actually took place. They include boyish tales of a midshipman,
a blockade runner, an adventure with guerillas, a raw recruit, how
Cushing destroyed the “Albemarle,” President Lincoln and the sleeping
sentinel, the battle of the “Monitor” and “Merrimac”, and Sheridan’s
ride and Lee’s surrender, as told by Robert Shackleton, John
Habberton, Captain Howard Patterson, L. E. Chittenden, General Fosythe
and others.
Strange stories of the revolution. †60c. Harper.
7–15588.
This volume in the Harper’s young people series pictures a number of
dramatic scenes in the Revolution ranging from Lexington to Yorktown.
They include: the true story of Paul Revere, an account of the days
before Bunker Hill, The capture of the “Margaretta,” the pursuit of
Arnold, how Lafayette played the war game of 1781 against Cornwallis,
and five other stories by Howard Pyle, Winthrop Packard, Percival
Redsdale and others.
=Strasburger, Eduard.= Rambles on the Riviera; tr. from the German by O.
and B. Comerford Casey. *$5. Scribner.
7–4810.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 804. D. 22. 230w.
=Streatfeild, Richard Alexander.= Modern music and musicians. $2.75.
Macmillan.
6–45303.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 131. My. ’07.
“All his chapters are interesting, tho some are marred by rhetorical
skyrockets. He has the courage of his convictions and utters some new
opinions that are worth considering; but he also publishes some
opinions (and even a few misstatements of fact) which prove that his
authoritative pose is not wholly justified.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1528. Je. 27, ’07. 390w.
=Spec.= 98: 139. Ja. 26, ’07. 930w.
=Streatfield, Rev. George Sidney.= Self-interpretation of Jesus Christ:
a study of the Messianic consciousness as reflected in the synoptics.
*$1.25. Meth. bk.
“The Jesus of the synoptists, it is here argued with much force and
learning, asserts Himself as the transcendental Christ.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“Compels respect by reason of the conspicuous earnestness and
sincerity of the author. The book is fundamentally in error in two
respects. The value of Jesus and his message to man is not determined
precisely by his peculiar ontological relation to God. And further,
the dilemma which the author proposes will not exhaust the
possibilities in the light of an honest historical interpretation of
the gospels.” J. W. Bailey.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 688. O. ’07. 300w.
“The author’s familiarity with modern controversial literature has
overloaded his pages with variant opinions, while theological terms
are not always clearly and precisely distinguished. In general he
seems to be defending the truth rather than seeking it.”
− + =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 50w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 830. N. 24, ’06. 310w.
* =Streckfuss, Adolf.= Lonely house; tr. from the German by Mrs. A. L.
Wister. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–33203.
A story which tells how a German scientist hunting for specimens in
the mountains of Southern Ukraine is drawn into a murder case, how
unwittingly he aids the guilty man in his prosecution of an innocent
one, and how finally he accidentally discovers clews which lead to the
straightening of the tangle.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
* =Street, George Slythe.= Ghosts of Piccadilly. **$2.50. Putnam.
With Mr. Street as guide, the reader enters the Piccadilly of the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth century, goes from house to house, and
studies the characteristics of the “ghosts of no ordinary men and
women.” Among them are Dr. Johnson, Beau Brummel, Lady Ashburton,
Tennyson, the Carlyles, “Old Q,” Macaulay, Byron and Lady Hamilton.
* * * * *
“On the whole a very worthy addition to the noble army of books about
the Town.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 58. O. 26, ’07. 620w.
“Much of his matter will be fresh enough to most readers, but the
point is the freshness with which he tells the story, the insight and
balance of his judgments on people, the sharp light on his thumb-nail
sketches. There is all Piccadilly in this volume, presented in a
medium of imaginative talk.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 648. N. 23. 1440w.
“Lively, gossipy chronicles of bygone days.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“If one cannot praise the book quite without reserve, that is mainly
because of the conditions under which it was composed. It was written
for the magazines and was intended to be read, not at a sitting, but
in installments.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 324. O. 25, ’07. 1020w.
“Author and subject are in an ‘affinity.’”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 3. N. 16, ’07. 1560w.
“A most readable kind [of book]. It is not, it will be understood, for
every reader.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 120w.
=Stringer, Arthur.= Phantom wires. †$1.50. Little.
7–12004.
A continuation of the fortunes of the wire tappers who married hastily
and left New York strong in the resolution to abandon their
questionable methods of gaining a livelihood. Abroad, luck seems to
turn against them and once more Durkin turns his electrical
engineering skill to account, locates valuable papers and turns
burglar. The adventures which he and his clever wife share are quite
as novel as they are thrilling.
* * * * *
“We regard it as distinctly inferior to the author’s former story.”
− =Arena.= 38: 217. Ag. ’07. 470w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 280w.
“The plot is constructed with skill and worked out with more than
ordinary ability.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 130w.
“It is a risky theme, but the author handles it skillfully and with
restraint.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 520w.
“There is decided talent shown in the management of the details of
this intricate and highly sensational novel.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 70w.
=Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott.= Wire tappers. †$1.50. Little.
6–16649.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a psychologist Mr. Stringer is less successful. Frances, in
particular is an incredible character.” Herbert W. Horwill.
− + =Forum.= 38: 546. Ap. ’07. 540w.
* =Stringer, Arthur John A.= Woman in the rain and other poems. **$1.25.
Little.
7–37033.
In “The woman in the rain” Mr. Stringer pictures the horror of the
“huddled sins” of the unregenerate woman grown old in her vice. Among
the other poems are “The passing of Aphrodite,” and “Sappho in
Leucadia.”
* * * * *
“Both new and old verses are sincere and human in note.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Strong, Mrs. Arthur (Eugenie Sellers).= Roman sculpture: from Augustus
to Constantine. (Library of art.) *$3. Scribner.
7–35388.
Based upon a series of lectures delivered at intervals during the past
seven years Mrs. Strong’s work is “an exposition of the distinctive
character and the evolutionary process of Roman art from the inception
of the empire to the official triumph of Christianity.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“We have criticised this book somewhat closely because it has
interested us deeply. Mrs. Strong is a vigorous critic and will not
shun criticism. The book is more than a valuable addition to the
literature of Roman art. It is practically the first book in this
language to give a wide conspectus of the scope and aims of Roman
sculpture.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 530. Je. 1, ’07. 2620w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 198. N. ’07.
“Inasmuch as her ability and attainments are so well known that
unfavorable criticism cannot be regarded as unfriendly, we must record
the unhesitating opinion that she could have written a much better
book.”
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 168. S. 16, ’07. 470w.
“It is no flattery to say that she is foremost among the excellent
women now working in the classics. She is, however, hardly justified
in saying that it is ‘evidently absurd to talk of a realistic as
opposed to an idealistic art.’”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 761. S. 26, ’07. 390w.
=Int. Studio.= 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 40w.
“Mrs. Strong has thrown down a gauntlet which will doubtless be taken
up; but he will be a bold man who does it. Her knowledge is immense,
her observation most accurate, her criticism penetrative and fine.
There is no one now writing on ancient art with greater insight than
Mrs. Strong. The points to which we have demurred are not among the
essentials of her book.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 171. My. 31, ’07. 1670w.
“A volume like this should be welcomed. It should not be concealed
that Mrs. Strong hurts her case very often by claiming too much for
her works that are cold and clumsy, poorly disposed, and lacking in
true distinction.” Charles de Kay.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 479. Ag. 3, ’07. 1570w.
“Small blemishes should not prevent us from expressing our deep
gratitude to Mrs. Strong for a book produced at the right time and in
the right way.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 56. Jl. 13, ’07. 1740w.
* =Strong, Rev. Josiah.= Challenge of the city. **$1. Baker.
“The president of the American institute of social service here adds
to his widely read and stimulating books one for younger readers.”
(Outlook.) He “treats the problem of those churches and parishes which
are being crowded out of many city districts by the oncoming of
business houses. Eighty-five churches below Fourteenth street have
gone out of existence during the last twenty years. The author finds a
remedy in the direction of federation. Four chapters of the book
appeared previously in a periodical.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Outlook.= 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 160w.
=Strong, Very Rev. Thomas Banks=, ed. Lectures on the methods of
science. *$2.50. Oxford.
6–37941.
Nine lectures by as many eminent lecturers upon such subjects as
Scientific method as a mental operation, Physiology, Inheritance in
animals and plants, Psychophysical method, The evolution of double
stars, Anthropology, Archaeological evidence, and Scientific method as
applied to history.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 71: 59. Jl. 21, ’06. 1840w.
“The present volume, however, depends too much upon its title and its
preface. Uninspired by their suggestions, the reader would not suspect
that he was following a course on scientific method. He would rather
suppose that he was receiving an amount of very interesting and very
miscellaneous information.” Frederick J. E. Woodbridge.
− + =J. Philos.= 3: 692. D. 6, ’06. 1820w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 238. Jl. 6, ’06. 2230w.
“The first two lectures ... which treat explicitly of the subject
designated in the title of the book, are in reality the least valuable
chapters. The real contributions to the study of method are tacit and
incidental features of the other papers, which make the least overt
reference to the subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 366. Ap. 18, ’07. 400w.
− =Nature.= 74: 149. Je. 14, ’06. 200w.
“In this handy form they should do much to teach the ordinary reader
what science claims to be and how its operations are conducted.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 61. Jl. 14, ’06. 490w.
=Stuart, Ruth McEnery.= Woman’s exchange of Simpkinsville. †$1.25.
Harper.
Two spinster sisters, “upon whose frail maiden shoulders had devolved
responsibilities hitherto unknown to the women of the name of
Simpkins” lose the fortune of their Arkansas forebears and have to
face the question of earning a livelihood. They hit upon the idea of a
Woman’s exchange, establish it and manage it with credit to the name
of Simpkins. Their rather tame existence is broken by bits of town
gossip, echoes of sentiment of long ago, and chiefly by a proposition
of ten thousand dollars for the collection of birds in the extending
of which an only brother had lost his life.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Stuart’s touch is broader than Mrs. Deland’s, and she is more
open to the charge of sentimentalism.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 110w.
Studies in philosophy and psychology: by former students of Charles
Edward Garman, in commemoration of twenty-five years of service as
teacher of philosophy in Amherst college. *$2.50. Houghton.
6–22901.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by John Dewey.
+ =Philos. R.= 16: 312. My. ’07. 4220w.
Reviewed by Arthur O. Lovejoy.
=Psychol. Bull.= 4: 18. Ja. 15, ’07. 2840w. (Review of pt. 1.)
Reviewed by Charles H. Judd.
=Psychol. Bull.= 4: 24. Ja. 15, ’07. 1960w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Sturdy, William A. (Isaac Didwin, pseud.).= Degeneracy of the
aristocracy. $1. Pub. by the author; For sale by the Rhode Island news
co., Providence, R. I.
7–15554.
“The purpose of this book is to show, by the retrospect of history,
that democracy is destined to assert itself in such a positive manner
as to overthrow the commonly accepted theories of the past, that are
so tenaciously held to, for the apparent purpose of trying to maintain
a declining aristocracy.”
=Sturgis, Russell.= History of architecture. 3v. v. 1. per set. **$15.
Baker.
6–45368.
“Mr. Sturgis’s book belongs to the monumental class. It belongs also
to the encyclopedic class, except that the arrangement is
chronological and by countries instead of by topics arranged in
alphabetical order.” (Lit. D.) “An important feature of this work will
be the careful study of the climatic influences on architecture and of
the relation of the domestic to the monumental architecture in various
countries—a field which has been somewhat neglected by architectural
writers. The first volume will deal with the architecture of Egypt,
Western Asia, Greece, Etruria, and Rome.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Masterly work. Beautifully printed and illustrated, but the paper is
so heavy and brittle as to be unsatisfactory for library use.”
+ + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 74. Mr. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)
“Much of it is brilliantly written, and the whole is evidently the
result of wide reading, travel, and study.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 187. Ag. 17. 1100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“As a record of architectural events, this history, as evidenced by
the volume in hand, leaves nothing to be desired. The task of
collating and arranging the great mass of detail has been heavy, and
the outcome is a work of great value and a matter of congratulation to
both author and publisher.” Irving K. Pond.
+ + + =Dial.= 42: 137. Mr. 1, ’07. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The nomenclature of places is occasionally open to criticism. A book
full of information and suggestion, the fruits of a ripe scholarship,
and far more readable than most works of this kind are apt to be.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 271. Ja. 31, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work must at once be accepted as a standard treatise.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Despite these minor blemishes, the work is plainly the fruit of
careful scholarship, accurate in all its specific information, and
usually sound in all its analysis and criticism. It ought to be of
real service in the stimulation of public interest and the training of
public taste.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1.)
“One need have no hesitation in commending the work as by far the best
on its subject and of its scope in the English language. It takes its
place at once as an authority.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 553. S. 14, ’07. 1380w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Half the volume’s value ... is represented by the illustrations.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 36. My. 4, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 1.)
=R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Sturt, Henry Cecil.= Idola theatri: a criticism of Oxford thought and
thinkers from the standpoint of a personal idealism. *$3.25. Macmillan.
6–36468.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Sturt has produced a book of vigorous and suggestive criticism of
current thought and especially of the logical and metaphysical
doctrine of Mr. Bradley, who has to bear the brunt of the attack upon
‘Anglo-Hegelianism.’ One could wish, however, that the standpoint of
personal idealism had been more fully indicated.” A. Mackie.
+ + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 403. Ap. ’07. 640w.
Reviewed by John Watson.
− =Philos. R.= 16: 78. Ja. ’07. 2240w.
=Sue, Eugene.= Wandering Jew. 2v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
A reissue of, uniform with the limp leather “Thin papers sets.”
=Suess, Eduard.= Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha
B. C. Sollas under the direction of W. J. Sollas. 5v. per v. *$7.75.
Oxford.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Students of Professor Suess’s masterpieces hardly know whether to
admire most his encyclopedic knowledge of the earth’s surface, his
familiarity with the literature of his subject, his grasp of detail,
his reach of speculation, or his fine poetical feeling and gifts of
expression.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 77. Ja. 19. 770w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Sumner, William Graham.= Folkways: a study of the sociological
importance of usages, manners; customs, mores, and morals. *$3. Ginn.
7–21403.
An analytical definition of the folkways and a description of their
functions in the formation and integration of society. Folkways are
the ways of satisfying needs which become habitual and customary by
the uncoördinated coöperation of individuals. The author shows how
these uncoördinated acts grow into habits, thence into traditional
customs related to social welfare, later have a philosophy and become
rules of the life policy.
* * * * *
“Professor Sumner has written a very valuable and timely book, and one
involving years of patient research as well as the possession of a
ripe and fearless mind. The two most serious defects of ‘Folkways’ are
a lack of psychological standpoint and a lack of systematic and
complete presentation.” Wm. I. Thomas.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 116. O. ’07. 730w.
“The data from anthropology and ethnology seem at times to overweigh
the book by their sheer bulk and multiplicity, but for the most part
they deepen the impression of the main thesis.” George E. Vincent.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 414. N. ’07. 2000w.
“A distinct gap is filled by this dissertation. From the student’s
point of view it is not an easy text-book to read or digest. From the
standpoint of those of larger growth it appears congested and scrappy,
and suffers the penalty of brevity in drifting occasionally into
overstatement and uncritical acceptance of evidence. Throughout the
book the author hits hard and does not stay to bandy words with his
adversary; but, although the reader may not always agree with him, he
will find Professor Sumner suggestive and stimulating.” C. H. Hawes.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 666. N. 21, ’07. 640w.
=Sweeney, Mildred I. McNeal-.= When yesterday was young; poems. $1.50.
Cooke.
7–1960.
Poems descriptive of nature or of places, with a few of legendary,
historical or personal character.
* * * * *
“Nearly every one of the poems in the book seems a ‘tour de force.’ A
phrase, a line, or, at the most, a stanza speaks: the rest is
deliberate verse-making—elaboration.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 733. Mr. 28, ’07. 160w.
“Mr. Sweeney’s verse in both conception and phrase is the product more
of fancy than of imagination, and a book of the size of this can
scarcely be energized save by the latter.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 260w.
“One will not read far in Mrs. Sweeney’s poems without noting both
their delicacy of vision and their reflective mood. Though now and
again of blither note, they have, in the main, a thoughtful quality,
wistful, but never melancholy.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 220. Ap. 6, ’07. 340w.
=Sweet, J. M.= Birth and infancy of Jesus Christ. *$1.50. Presbyterian
bd.
6–43773.
An exposition of the arguments that tend to prove the historical
authenticity of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.
* * * * *
“His reasoning is not always cogent, but his research has been
patient, his consideration of the subject on all sides thoro, and he
has preserved thruout the convincing spirit of inquiry”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1175. N. 14, ’07. 110w.
“His critical skill and appreciation are not sufficient to allow him
to do full justice to his theme, this being especially noticeable in
his treatment of Old Testament passages.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 449. N. 14, ’07. 80w.
“If there is a more thorough and scholarly defense of the virgin birth
of Jesus Christ than this monograph of Mr. Sweet, we are not
acquainted with it. It is not and does not pretend to be impartial; it
is a defense of the orthodox doctrine. But it is fair-minded, erudite,
thorough.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 576. Mr. 9, ’07. 400w.
=Spec.= 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 60w.
=Sweetser, Kate Dickinson.= Boys and girls from Thackeray, il. †$2.
Duffield.
7–28978.
A companion volume to “Boys and girls from Dickens” and “Boys and
girls from George Eliot.” A volume warranted by the emphasis which
Thackeray has placed upon his juvenile sketches, They are reprinted
without the adult intrigue and plot surrounding them in the novels
from which they are taken.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 110w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
=Swete, Henry Barclay.= Apocalypse of St. John: the Greek text with
introd., notes and indices. *$3.50. Macmillan.
Preceding the text and occupying about half the book such introductory
subjects are discussed as Prophecy in the apostolic church, Jewish and
Christian apocalypses, Contemporary scholarship and thought in western
Asia, Origin of the apocalypse of St. John, including a discussion of
its grammatical, rhetorical and literary style and an interpretation
of the text from the religious, symbolical, mystical, historical and
biographical point of view.
* * * * *
“Dr. Swete’s work is marked by all the care, thoroughness, and
precision of scholarship in linguistic and grammatical interpretation
which distinguished all his work and secure to him his place as a
member of the famous ‘Cambridge’ school. But to the present writer he
appears, by the complete rejection of the methods applied, e. g., by
Boussett, to exclude the only possible means of arriving at an
interpretation of the book which is at once consistent and primary;
i.e., an interpretation of what was in the mind of the author.” C.
Anderson Scott.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 540. Jl. ’07. 1140w.
“We must be content with adding an emphatic commendation of Dr.
Swete’s volume to the attention of our readers.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1005. Je. 29, ’07. 420w.
=Swettenham, Sir Frank Athelstane.= British Malaya: an account of the
origin and progress of British influence in Malaya. *$4.50. Lane.
7–7542.
Essentially historical. “Of the fourteen chapters, the first deals
with the milieu, the next with the early history according to native
and European sources; then follow two chapters on the dawn of British
influence; they are not always pleasant reading, for our treatment of
the Sultan of Kedah was anything but creditable. The next two chapters
cover the middle fifty years of the last century. This was a period of
anarchy, brought to an end, though not at once, by the appointment of
British residents.... Not the least attractive portions of the work
are of the author’s testimony to the virtues of the Chinese and his
condemnation of the ordinary system of building railways in British
colonies.... The final chapter gives us the author’s views on the
future of the British colony with some more criticism of irrational
methods.”—Acad.
* * * * *
+ + =Acad.= 71: 651. D. 29, ’06. 400w.
“The volume is one which should appeal in an extraordinary degree to
American readers, for there is scarcely a page which does not present
some problem or recount some incident which throws light upon the
peculiar character of the Peninsular Malay who is the first cousin of
the Filipino.” Alleyne Ireland.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 154. O. ’07. 970w.
“If ever we should reach the conclusion that instead of trying to fit
people to institutions, institutions should be fitted to the nature
and capacities of the people as they develop under the influence of
industrial opportunity, our administrators may derive valuable
suggestions as to sensible procedure from such books as this one by
Sir Francis Swettenham.” Henry Jones Ford.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 663. My. ’07. 1170w.
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 13. Ja. 5. 330w.
“May well rank as a masterpiece among the host of similar books
written by the servants of the British government.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 343. Je. 1, ’07. 480w.
“Will appeal not only to those interested in the geographical and
political questions discussed, but also to the comparatively
restricted public who delight in Oriental art work unmodified by
western influence.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 277. Ja. ’07. 160w.
“It is [a story] that has never been told before with any historic
continuity or in any detail; he tells it with full knowledge, with
great literary skill and with infinite sympathy.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 351. O. 19, ’06. 2200w.
“Were the applicants for positions in our Philippine civil service
obliged to pass an examination to prove their fitness, ‘British
Malaya’ would be an invaluable text-book.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 249. Mr. 14, ’07. 1030w.
“Sir Frank Swettenham writes always with force, sometimes with humour,
very often with charm, with delicacy, and with finish, in spite of an
occasional tendency to split a hapless infinitive. It should be read
by every Englishman who loves his country, for from Sir Frank
Swettenham’s eloquent pages all who read will carry away many
beautiful and striking pictures, many facts of great value, and a
number of imperial lessons very well worth learning and remembering.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 1730w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Poems: selected and edited by Arthur
Beatty. 35c. Crowell.
6–34710.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This admirable little volume brings the cream of Swinburne’s poetry
within easy reach of all lovers of poetry, and in a handy-sized
volume.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 635. D. ’06. 100w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= William Blake; a critical essay. 3d ed.
*$2. Dutton.
7–35152.
Along with the revival of Blake literature appears a reprint of
Swinburne’s essay published forty years ago. “Where Mr. Swinburne’s
book is invaluable is in his interpretation of poetry, of symbolism as
poetry, of pictorial design as poetry.... In this huge book of
criticism, in which the main incidents of the life of Blake are told,
and a detailed account is given of nearly the whole of his literary
and much of his painted and engraved work, there is not a page—not
even in those flaming foot-notes which spire from page to page after
the dwindling body of the text—which is not essentially poetry rather
than prose.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 86. Mr. ’07.
“It is difficult to think of another book, written by a poet on a
poet, which is so generous and so illuminating.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 149. Ag. 11. 1920w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 169. F. ’07 1100w.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 70w.
“Allowing for some extravagance of expression, the criticism of the
book is both just and profound; and the commentary, whether it be
right or wrong on particular points, provides a clear and probably
accurate statement of Blake’s ideas and beliefs. It is all written
with the confidence and prolixity of youth.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 276. Ag. 10, ’06. 1530w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 150w.
“There is never likely to be a work on Blake which will supersede that
just, eloquent, generous, and illuminating ‘critical’ essay which Mr.
Swinburne wrote forty years ago and has only now reprinted. It is a
book marvellous for sanity and insight; it was a defence of Blake at a
time when he needed to be defended, and it repeats his praise now,
when the praise is no longer startling.” Arthur Symons.
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 231. Ag. 25, ’06. 1840w.
* =Swing, Albert Temple.= James Harris Fairchild; or, Sixty-eight years
with a Christian college. **$2. Revell.
7–15571.
An intimate sketch of the life of President Fairchild who was
associated with Oberlin college in the capacity of student, teacher,
president and professor emeritus from 1834 to 1902.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Instead of a real book [this is] a volume that makes its chief appeal
to the alumni of Oberlin, by whom it will doubtless be appreciated, in
oblivion of the larger public.” Montgomery Schuyler.
− =Putnam’s.= 3: 103. O. ’07. 580w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 381. S. ’07. 120w.
* =Symonds, John Addington.= Essays, speculative and suggestive; new ed.
*$2. Scribner.
A group of essays first printed seventeen years ago, since which time
the harsh judgments then passed upon it have softened somewhat.
* * * * *
“On a second reading the volume appears very unequal, but it is
certainly full of ideas.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 550. N. 2. 120w.
“Some of the essays, particularly those on style and on Walt Whitman,
are in his best vein.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 120w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 70w.
* =Symonds, John Addington.= Wine, women, and song; being an essay on
the medieval Latin student’s drinking songs, with translations. il.
*$1.50. McClure.
Recalled from the past of twenty years ago this book “should be widely
studied if only in order to hasten the death of the absurd belief that
the Middle ages were a time of unnatural misery, when religious mania
ruled the world and joy and laughter died under the frown of a
monstrous puritanical church.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“Until some kind person will issue a selection of the Goliardic songs
in their original Latin, at a price, and in a form that will help them
to popularity, there is nothing quite so good as this book of J. A.
Symonds’s translations and comments.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 837. Ag. 31, ’07. 1070w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Cities. *$2.50. Dutton.
“Mr. Symons’s note is his own.... Rome, Venice, Naples, Seville,
Prague, Moscow, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia and Constantinople are
traversed and exposed for us by a temperament at once subtle and
impressionistic.”—No. Am.
* * * * *
“Mr. Symons is quite at his best. It is witchery of fine sensations
that characterizes Rome or Seville or Prague or whatever city Mr.
Symons visits.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 140w.
“He is the Whistler of critics.” James Huneker.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 205. Ap. 7, ’06. 550w.
“The book is of a rare charm.” James Huneker.
+ =No. Am.= 185: 76. My. 3, ’07. 160w.
“Some of these [cities] he loves; some he hates. In both cases he
tells us why and with frank thoroughness.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 220w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Fool of the world and other poems. *$1.50. Lane.
7–18138.
“The title poem of the volume, a brief Morality play, called ‘The fool
of the world,’ employs a style which admirably suits the theme,
infusing into the simple colloquy between Man and Death all the dread,
the fear, the mystery of mortality as they pervade ‘Everyman’ and
other of the old Morality plays. Following this ... Mr. Symons has a
group of ‘Meditations,’ poised and passionless as a Buddhistic
reverie, fatalistic, ‘sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.’...
Contrary to the mood of his prose, the prevailing note of Mr. Symons’
poetry is negative and over his pages futility, and ever futility, is
written.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“[‘The fool of the world’] shows, for all its slenderness, strong
dramatic power. It asks a question; it leads you on, as you fancy,
ever nearer to the answer, working up your eagerness in every line;
and suddenly at the close, in the very last word, it flashes upon you
the piteous truth.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 498. N. 17, ’06. 640w.
“Although Mr. Symons has not mastered poetic forms, his poetry is full
of sensitive beauty.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 284. Mr. 9. 380w.
“There are exquisite things in this volume, lyrical and meditational,
and there is a graver burden, as of satiety, than we have been wont to
find in the work of the poet.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 220w.
=Ind.= 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 370w.
“It is decidedly good compared with anything but the best.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 392. N. 23, ’06. 520w.
“He has an admirable poetic scholarship and an equally admirable
intellectual integrity; his cup may be small, but he drinks from his
cup. Yet Mr. Symons’s pride in his intellectual integrity is sometimes
his undoing. His uneasy hatred of the commonplace and his constant
endeavor to give it as wide a berth as possible involve such an
expenditure of energy that in the long run he falls a prey to the very
thing he would escape.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 590w.
“His style, which in prose has so much distinction, in poetry lacks
the barb of personality, the differentiating touch. His phrasing is
restrained, delicate, often beautiful, but of magic, of color, of
divinely unpremeditated art he is not the master.” Jessie B.
Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 1030w.
“An idea lies at the bottom of each of these finely chased cups
offered by the poet. Poison, too, is not absent, the venom of love and
life and death.” James Huneker.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 76. My. 3, ’07. 260w.
“He has developed a theory of poetry and the arts; he has found a
locality other than London; he has even touched Keltic dreams in
Cornwall; in the lyric rather than in the drama lies the value of his
new, as his older, tone.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 320w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Introduction to the study of Browning. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–18128.
A reissue, revised and enlarged. “Mr. Symons discusses Browning’s
‘general characteristics’ and those of each of his poems. In the
appendix will be found a bibliography of the poet and a reprint of
discarded prefaces to the first issues of some of his works. There is
also an index to poems referred to in the text. Like other books of
this type, there are innumerable quotations from the writings of the
poet. In addition to all these, the footnotes are full and clear.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Nation.= 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 830. D. 1, ’06. 320w.
“In this second edition ... Mr. Symons has been able to add materially
to the interest of the book through the publication of comments upon
it by three no less authoritative critics than Walter Pater, George
Meredith, to whom the book is dedicated, and Robert Browning himself.”
A. G.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 410w.
“Notwithstanding the appearance of numerous studies of Browning, his
introduction remains the best commentary upon that poet’s works.”
James Huneker.
+ + =No. Am.= 185: 75. My. 3, ’07. 390w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Spiritual adventures. **$2.50. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by James Huneker.
+ =No. Am.= 185: 77. My. 3, ’07. 300w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Studies in seven arts. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–6390.
Containing the following studies: Rodin, The painting of the
nineteenth century, Gustave Moreau, Watts, Whistler, Cathedrals, The
decay of craftsmanship in England, Beethoven, The ideas of Richard
Wagner, The problem of Richard Strauss, Eleanor Dusé, A new art of the
stage, A symbolistic farce [Ubo roi, by A. Jarry], Pantomime and the
poetic drama, The world as ballet.
* * * * *
“In his last book Mr. Symons has adventured in search of new
sensations and new moods into unfamiliar fields of art, where he has
occasionally lost confidence in himself and followed the advice of
every person of authority he chanced to encounter. When he confides in
his own faculty of insight he is still an admirable interpreter of the
eternal miracles of beauty: when he mistrusts his own powers he
becomes merely a conscientious student of the opinions of other men.
Criticism distilled from criticism is wanting in life and personality:
it is a branch of the dead sciences.”
− + =Acad.= 71: 629. D. 22, ’06. 770w.
“It is agreeable to read this cunning prose, but we must not be
forbidden to challenge some of its pontificial assumptions. The charm,
however, of these essays lies not in their critical or technical
exactitude, but in their incomparably delicate impressionism.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 284. Mr. 9. 1250w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 297. Mr. ’07. 400w.
“In at least five cases out of the seven (the exceptions being the
articles on architecture and handicraft, the first of which is merely
descriptive and the second merely a pointed and forcible repetition of
standing truths) he has something good, often something profound to
say, not merely on points of detail, but on what he conceives to be
the principles of the art in question. And after reading his charming,
illuminating, often exquisitely written book, we reach instinctively
for an antidote—‘The Republic,’ or ‘What is art?’”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 408. D. 7, ’06. 1000w.
“Seven essays ... belong to the best of our time. They are indeed
discriminating.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 1000w.
“Mr. Symons preserves order throughout his book and reproduces for the
reader much of his own original aesthetic enjoyment.” Percy Vincent
Donovan.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 254. Ap. 20, ’07. 1610w.
“He has personality, charm, erudition.” James Huneker.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 78. My. 3, ’07. 600w.
“Each paper is distinguished by a general excellence in the selection
of material and by an extreme finish in the manner of its exposition.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 420w.
“Here is subjective impressionism in the finest flower. As a matter of
record few Frenchmen, even, can excel Mr. Symons in subtlety or
penetration. A poet first and last, his attitude is always imperiously
personal.” Christian Brinton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 126. Ap. ’07. 180w.
“Why, then, when we think thus highly of the book, have we spent
nearly our whole space in criticising rather than in praising it? On
his own terms he comes to us, and on his own terms right glad are we
to welcome him. But, to quote the old saying, though Plato is dear to
us, Truth is dearer. This too daintily allusive, too artificially
picturesque, too laboriously, extravagantly illustrative method of art
criticism ... is dangerous: in the hands of the commoner critic it
becomes absurd.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 1. F. 23, ’07. 1930w.
=Symons, Arthur.= William Blake. *$3. Dutton.
7–37535.
“An enthusiastic interpretation and impassioned defense of the poet
and painter whose art still puzzles and fascinates.... Mr. Symons
begins by narrating every fact of importance in Blake’s life and
achievements, giving his own interpretation of Blake’s intentions.
Then comes a verbatim reprint of all available documents, containing
every personal account of Blake printed during his life, to which are
added references to him in the diary and letters of Crabb
Robinson.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It will be seen that any new book on Blake must justify its
appearance by extraordinary merit, and it cannot be said that Mr.
Symons’s work quite stands the test.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 286. S. 26, ’07. 1480w.
“Mr. Symons has written a book of unusual interest. Absorbed and in
accord with his subject, he employs a style elevated and somewhat
mystical at times, yet well sustained and peculiarly fitted for the
narrative.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 307. O. 12, ’07. 1610w.
“We did not expect from him the divine energy and insight of Mr.
Swinburne; but we did expect scholarship, research, grace and order,
and we have them here in a book which we cannot do without.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 483. O. 19, ’07. 1230w.
=Synge, M. B.= Short history of social life in England. **$1.50. Barnes.
7–11534.
“A decidedly entertaining account of the growth of social institutions
and modern customs in England. The absurdities of bygone fashion, the
changes made by scientific inventions, domestic conveniences and
inconveniences, old-time gambling, the abolition of dueling, the
improvement of table manners, and a hundred other little land-marks of
advancing civilization are discussed in an unconventional, amusing
way.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“He has thrown together a mass of details, apparently without being
able to determine which facts were worth being told, which were not,
nor yet which were actually facts and which were only supposed to be
such. He seems to have no well-ordered plan for presenting his
material. Finally, he devotes too much space to political history,
though he gives notice in his introduction that he will avoid doing
so.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 194. O. ’07. 550w.
“The author treats the entire subject as one of development, advance,
and betterment, and does it very successfully. The work is evidently
based on wide reading and research.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 289. My. 1, ’07. 450w.
“Mr. Synge’s book is exceptionally helpful in giving an idea of the
occupations, the pleasures, the manners and customs of the English
people of all ranks from the days of the early Britons to the
present.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 699. S. 19, ’07. 410w.
“He tells his story well. It is not a work of original research. The
records are all easily accessible. It is not the first work of its
kind. But it is one of the most readable books of the year thus far.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 160. Mr. 16, ’07. 290w.
“A series of shifting society pictures not without significance and
with a strong interest to all who like to delve into the quaint,
queer, and curious.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 766. Mr. 30. ’07. 80w.
“This book is pleasant to read, full of sprightly humour, and as far
as we have been able to test it, historically accurate.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 212. F. 9, ’07. 2170w.
=Syrett, Netta.= Day’s journey. †$1.25. McClurg.
6–33579.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story is brilliantly told, and is a study of ‘temperaments,’
artistic and otherwise, of an unusually readable sort.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 389. F. 14, ’07. 410w.
=Szold, Henrietta=, ed. American Jewish year book 5668, September 9,
1907, to September 25, 1908. $3. Jewish pub.
Two directories are included in this year book: The directory of
Jewish national organizations, and The directory of Jewish local
organizations.
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=Tabb, John Banister.= Selection from the verses of the Rev. John Tabb,
made by Alice Meynell. **$1. Small.
“The deliciously tender songs of childhood, of flowers, of lament, the
delicate fancies and symbols ... and the sacred poems, which in their
union of individuality and universality remind us often of the best of
Herbert, are the work of one who is none the less a poet, because four
lines often contain his thought.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“One of Mr. Tabb’s leading characteristics is his power of suggesting
by the lightest of touches, the most delicate of hints, some mighty
truth.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 498. N. 17, ’06. 250w.
“His tiny poems like the psychologist’s pinpricks, are very perfect
tests of poetic sensibility.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 846. D, ’07. 280w.
“Mrs. Meynell’s selection, which is not free from misprints nor
immaculately edited, should at least prove a valuable introduction to
the four little volumes of ‘Poems,’ ‘Lyrics,’ ‘Child verse,’ and
‘Later lyrics.’”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 297. O. 4, ’07. 1940w.
“Is a fairly satisfactory exhibition of the quality of that keenly
individual poet.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 360w.
“His pearls here have been beautifully strung, and they show him at
his best.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w.
“Mrs. Meynell has made a good selection from Mr. Tabb’s poems, and we
miss nothing we should desire to see reprinted. At his best he has the
quaintness and poignancy of Crashaw, but he is not always at his best;
and when his conceits master him he is guilty of doubtful taste.
Sometimes, as in the sonnet ‘Unmoored,’ he attains a fine dignity of
rhythm; but his strength lies usually in simple catches, in which a
thought or an emotion is delicately wedded to a metaphor.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 179. F. 2, ’07. 160w.
=Taft, Lorado.= Talks on sculpture. pa. 15c. Caproni.
7–16504.
A pamphlet reprint of papers written by the sculptor-author in
response to the movement instigated by Miss Brinkhaus to beautify
school rooms with casts of sculpture masterpieces. These brief talks
will awaken in both children and grown ups a desire for and an
appreciation of good art.
=Taft, William Howard.= Four aspects of civic duty. (Yale lectures on
the responsibilities of citizenship.) **$1. Scribner.
6–46256.
The duties of citizens viewed from the standpoint of a recent graduate
of a university, of a judge on the bench of colonial administration
and of the national executive constitute the four aspects of civic
duty considered by Secretary Taft.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 49. F. ’97. S.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 420. Mr. ’07. 330w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 190w.
“As a talker to young men on civic duty Dr. Hadley can hardly have
failed to see in him the supreme fitness of a man who has done a great
deal of that duty in an especially effectual fashion.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 13. Ja. 12, ’07. 1120w.
=Outlook.= 85: 766. Mr. 30, ’07. 290w.
“There is no rhetorical attempt at all, but a rhetorical success all
the same, in which the lecturers, can quite unmistakably say what they
mean and in which they always mean something.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 226. N. ’07. 490w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 381. Mr. ’07. 80w.
“The manner in which the character of the speaker, who has been so
effective an actor in the various public offices to which he has been
called, impresses itself upon the reader is not the least of the many
valuable features which the lectures contain.”
+ =Yale R.= 16: 108. My. ’07. 130w.
* =Taggart, Marion Ames.= Daughters of the little grey house. †$1.50.
McClure.
7–33202.
A sequel to “The little grey house.”
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=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Doctor’s little girl. $1.50. Page.
7–30163.
Other little girls will enjoy reading of this sunny child of ten whose
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room to yield them pleasure as well as financial profit. Their
lighthearted optimism carries them and their friends thru many
troubles and brings to them happiness and, in the end, prosperity.
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=Takekoshi, Yosaburo.= Japanese rule in Formosa; with preface by Baron
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7–25501.
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7–19783.
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plain bars embedded in it; the tests were made in 1905 and
1906.”—Engin. N.
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+ =Engin. N.= 57: 83. Ja. 17, ’07. 510w.
=Talbot, Ellen Bliss.= Fundamental principle of Fichte’s philosophy.
*$1. Macmillan.
7–21441.
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studies.’” W. H. Sheldon.
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=Talbot, Rt. Rev. Ethelbert.= My people of the plains. **$1.75. Harper.
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Talks with the little ones about the Apostles’ creed. 60c. Benziger.
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=Tallentyre, S. G. pseud. (E. V. Hall).= Friends of Voltaire. *$2.30.
Putnam.
W 7–118.
Sketches of ten apostles of Voltaire’s teachings. Miss Tallentyre has
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whose vices and virtues are delineated are D’Alembert, Diderot,
Gallani, Vauvenargues, d’Holbach, Grimm, Helvétius, Beaumarchais and
Condorcet.
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light and entertaining description of the society of the age.”
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“S. G. Tallentyre, knows the France of the eighteenth century rather
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